Method and device selective presentation of two images individually or combined as a fusion image

US8525852B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Holger Dresel · Meckenheim, DE
• Thomas Gossler · Erlangen, DE
• Andreas Grimme · Erlangen, DE
• Marion Hellinger · Uttenreuth, DE
• Sebastian Schmidt · Weisendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/20221
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and device to show two different images (determined from a first image data set and a second image data set) of at least one imaging modality (in particular a medical imaging modality), the images can be presented together on a display device with a presentation area as a fusion image or as individual images. A detection arrangement associated with the display device detects a movement of at least one finger of a user on the or in the immediate proximity of the presentation area or a contact of the presentation area and, depending on the detection, produces a change of the presentation of the fusion image, or changes between an individual image presentation and fusion image presentation or between two individual image presentations. A change from the first image to the second image is produced based on a movement of at least one finger ensuing essentially parallel to the presentation area, or the display of the first image is produced or removed based on a movement of at least one finger ensuing essentially parallel to the presentation area, with the display of the second image not being altered by the movement.